Pettinari and Demuru defend Italian battle title in Rome
Pettinari and Demuru kept the Battle crown in Rome as Gualdi and Degli Agostini repeated in pairs, while juniors and youth kept reshaping the bracket below.
Francesca Pettinari and Lorenzo Demuru kept the Battle crown in Rome, defending their Italian titles in the head-to-head freestyle format as the championships continued at Piazza dei Cinquecento, in front of Termini station. On the same day, Nexia Gualdi and Valerio Degli Agostini repeated as senior pairs champions, giving the capital two more familiar names at the top of a week that has already drawn more than 600 athletes from across Italy.
The setting has matched the scale. The Italian Inline Freestyle Championships have run from July 9 to July 19 under Skate Italia and ASD Universe Skating, with support from Rome Capitale and the Lazio region and Grandi Stazioni Retail as main partner. The opening ceremony on July 9 brought out officials from Rome Capitale, CONI Lazio and Skate Italia, along with a parade of clubs and a performance by Rollerdance Fam, the group founded by Giada Nazzari. Even with the capital’s heat, the event has kept moving through a full program of Speed Slalom, Classic Freestyle Slalom, Classic Freestyle Slalom Pairs, Roller Cross, Battle, High Jump, Free Jump and Slide.
The senior results have already shown why Rome is becoming a reference point for the discipline. In Classic Freestyle Slalom Pairs, Gualdi and Degli Agostini won with 164.96 points, ahead of Nikole Moretti and Lorenzo Demuru on 160.01 and Aurora Piva with Nicholas Yuki Santoni on 145.14. In the individual Classic Freestyle Slalom finals, Nikole Moretti took the senior women’s title and Lorenzo Demuru won the senior men’s crown, while Viola Luciani and Manuel Moretti captured the junior titles. The same names keep resurfacing across disciplines, a sign that Italy’s strongest freestyle skaters are building range, not just isolated results.
The emerging picture is even more telling underneath the senior layer. Greta Margrande won Ragazzi femminile and Tommaso Cardani won Ragazzi maschile in Battle, while Nexia Gualdi took Allievi femminile and Andrea Maiorano won Allievi maschile in Classic Freestyle Slalom. In the younger pairs fields, Greta Margrande and Ginevra Cobattelli won Allievi pairs, and Luca Buonincontro with Ludovica Ambrosini won the junior pairs title on 152.85 points after finishing third in Style Dance. Alessandro Grossi and Carlotta Bruzzi were second, with Matteo Di Nunzio and Mariaclaudia Parziale third.
That is the sharpest answer to Rome’s opening week: the top still belongs to repeat champions such as Pettinari, Demuru, Gualdi and Degli Agostini, but the bracket beneath them is crowded with Luciani, Moretti, Buonincontro, Ambrosini and Maiorano. The parade of clubs on opening night, from Conero Roller and ASD Byz Skating RM to Escape On Skate ASD, Original RS, Astro Roller Skating, Accademia Bustese P., ASDP Riccione, Vittoria Torino, Eximia ASD and Roller Verucchio, showed the sport’s national spread. Rome looks less like a one-off stage than a proving ground, and with Speed Slalom, Roller Cross, High Jump, Free Jump and Slide still to come through July 19, the championship table still has room to shift.
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